Archive - Escaping Flatland

Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful

I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I…

Apr 2 •

Henrik Karlsson

March 2024

On limitations that hide in your blindspot

and how to find them

Mar 18 •

Henrik Karlsson

and

Self-help for cocoons

and what's on my mind

Mar 7 •

Henrik Karlsson

February 2024

The third chair

I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. The feeling that writing was impossible; that I would…

Feb 24 •

Henrik Karlsson

Intensely Human, No 3

Feb 16 •

Henrik Karlsson

+ reading recommendations

Feb 1 •

Henrik Karlsson

January 2024

After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is possible to play. Then AI beat them.

Jan 23 •

Henrik Karlsson

+ open thread and a few fragments of essays

Jan 8 •

Henrik Karlsson

Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on

Jan 3 •

Henrik Karlsson

December 2023

They think it was a monk at the Monastery of St Alban in Trier, present-day Germany. On Christmas day, sometime in the 1570s, he was out walking when he…

Dec 24, 2023 •

Henrik Karlsson

A summary of what I wrote in 2023

In 2023, I published 37 essays. I’ve spent the better part of the morning going through it all to see what the themes were—it is quite surprising to…

Dec 19, 2023 •

Henrik Karlsson

Seeing people clearly

Head of people operations for the entire friend group

Dec 12, 2023 •

Henrik Karlsson

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